vieとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

vie (三人称単数 現在形 vies, 現在分詞 vying, 過去形および過去分詞形 vied)

1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

   Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

   • 1711 July 15, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 109; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     It is the tradition of a trading nation […] , that the younger sons […] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra [1]

     But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.

3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.

   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640:

     Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.

   • 1633, George Herbert, The Sacrifice

     And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

4. To stake; to wager.
   • c. 1605-1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone (The Fox)

     Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna

   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Anthony
5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

同意語

• battle
• compete
• oppose

反意語

• concede
• reconcile

名詞

vie (複数形 vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

アナグラム

• -ive, I've, VEI

Latin

動詞

viē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō